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Educating and mobilizing parents and caregivers across the nation around healthy kids and communities. Our work focuses on healthy schools and public spaces, marketing to kids, healthy drinks, dismantling the school to prison pipeline; amplifying resilience and decreasing trauma with social-emotional development practices in grades K-12.

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Tell Governors and Mayors to Invest in Student Supports --NOT Police in Schools

07/01/20
We are living in extraordinary times. Nationwide mobilizations in the aftermath of too many police killings have renewed an important conversation about police accountability and the role police play in our lives. Even further this conversation has called into question the role police play in the...
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Beatriz Beckford
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Rising for Black Lives and LGBTQ+ Rights: Your June MOMentum

06/30/20
From Juneteenth to Pride, this June has been marked by nonstop actions for justice by the MomsRising movement. From marching to calling to texting to letter signing, we have been raising our voices in our communities to call for justice and the end to police violence, to advance voter engagement,...
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Anita Sarah Jackson
Politics & Policy

To My Coworkers Who Didn’t Know We Would be Talking About Race On This Zoom Call

06/05/20
Last week, a man was murdered. He was murdered by the State, by those whose job it is to “protect and serve.” He was murdered because they suspected him of something. Anything. Everything. I watched that video play again and again. In it, I saw someone’s child, one who could have been my own. This...
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Jamila Perritt
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Childcare & Early Education Food! Maternal Justice

Top #5Actions of the Past Week: May 15, 2020

05/15/20
It's another Friday. The weather is warming and we are DOING IT, friends. This is a hard time. Thank you for all you're doing for yourself, your family, your community and this nation. We see you, and we're honored to work alongside you. This week's list of top #5Actions includes some urgent calls...
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Karen Showalter
2020 Census
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This Dia de las Madres (Mother's Day) Help us Secure our Children’s Future Through A Full Census Count

05/07/20
As families practice “safer-at-home” measures, school their children in virtual classrooms, and abstain from most of their usual activities before this public health crisis, we have all been reminded of the importance of safety and the future. This means ensuring a full and accurate count of everyone in the 2020 Census. And while research has made it clear that we need more creative strategies to reach and encourage Latino families to include their young children in the census, it is incumbent on all of us to do our part in making sure everyone in our networks is counted.
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Lizette Escobedo
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MomsRising’s COVID-19 Priorities: April 2020

04/28/20
Editor’s Note: This information is accurate as of today, 4/28/2020. These policies are continuing to evolve at the federal level, as well as at the state levels, and they may change, so please check back here on the MomsRising blog regularly for updated information. All policies addressing this...
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Stop the Trump Administration from Legalizing Discrimination!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/12412/?source=action">Stop the Trump Administration from Legalizing Discrimination!</a>

The Trump Administration's Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule that would make it legal for HHS-funded agencies and programs to discriminate against women, religious minorities, nonreligious people, and LGBTQ+ people. SIGN to oppose!

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Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7332/?source=action">Tell your U.S. Representative: Hands off SNAP!</a>

ALL HANDS ON DECK: We need you to deliver a letter to your U.S. Representative's local office NOW to protect SNAP! Sign up here and we'll send you everything you need.

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Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/7162/?source=action">Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!</a>

Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress are proposing significant cuts to SNAP in the Farm Bill, as well as creating unnecessary and harmful barriers to access. SIGN OUR LETTER NOW & tell Congress to protect SNAP!

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Tell Congress: Protect SNAP in the Farm Bill!

Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/6912/?source=action">Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App! </a>

Young kids don't need to spend time on social media!

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Tell Facebook: Pull the Plug on Messenger Kids App!

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